Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Madame du Barry and Zamor

Madame du Barry, mistress of Louis XV, seemed to be under the impression that Zamor was African when he was Indian. From Scroll.in:
The Comtesse du Barry herself wrote in her memoirs: “Initially, I took him to be a puppet or a plaything, but…I became passionate about my little page, besides, he was quick to perceive the ascendancy that he had gained over me, and, in the end… achieved an incredible degree of insolence and effrontery.” Zamor would have hardly agreed. After all, du Barry “brought and raised him merely for him to be made her toy; she allowed people to humiliate him at her home…he was incessantly ridiculed and insulted by the castle household”. Zamor’s effrontery, however, helped him when he chose to educate himself, especially in the ideas of the philosophers and more particularly those of Jean Jacques Rousseau. (Read more.)

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